Exodus has made an adjustment to its web site. Until today, a visitor to Exodus’ web site could find a link to Holocaust revisionist Scott Lively’s article which looked like this:

Homosexuality and the Nazi PartyThe pink triangle, symbol of the “gay rights” movement, is familiar to many Americans. As the badge used by the Nazis to designate homosexuals in the concentration camps, the pink triangle perfectly expresses the message of “gay rights.”

Homosexuality and the Nazi PartyThis opinion article by Scott Lively from 1995 is no longer offered by Exodus International.

Exodus website with link to Scott Lively's article removed, as of March 9, 2009. (Article highlighted, click to enlarge)

I find the link’s removal a good first step, but what remains seems rather ambiguous.

When Exodus removed their references to Paul Cameron, they did so with a retraction which reads, “This article has been removed due to the inaccuracies surrounding the research of Paul Cameron.” At the time, Exodus President Alan Chambers promised that in “coming months we will be doing a survey of the content on our site to determine… if there are other articles or links that need to be removed.” If Exodus did conduct such a survey, the Lively article apparently survived.

This time Exodus does not explain why Lively’s article was removed, which it merely identifies as an opinion piece “from 1995.” Did they remove it because it’s fourteen years old and out of date? Should people look for the article by Googling for it elsewhere? Or was it removed because it is an odious piece of Holocaust revisionism? Readers are left in the dark. Absent a clear and unequivocal denunciation of Lively, we’re somewhat in the dark as well.

The thing that’s most ironic about this is that evangelical Christians of Exodus’s brand are OBSESSED with reaching out and being friendly to the Jewish people. They do it because in order for their savior to make his next appearance there’s the little problem of scriptures that we Jews wrote and hold dear first becoming fulfilled. So they befriend us, become fierce advocates of Israel (hard-line and without compromise of course), and pretend that they won’t be waving goodbye from an ascending cloud during the rapture as we (the unconverted) stay below to endure hell on earth.

If they think that supporting Holocaust revisionism of ANY sort is a way to get into our good graces, they have another thing coming. It doesn’t matter if they still say 6 million Jews died while “only” saying that gays caused it to happen instead of human evil. If one fact can be “shaded” to fit an agenda, the door flies wide open to consider other facts null. The truths of the Shoah should never be left to ambiguity.

It may “pop” up again on another bit of work by Exodus. Other religious right groups (i.e. the Family Research Council) have a habit of taking “studies” off of their webpages on the excuse that the information is outdated and then offering these same studies up in repackaged forms.

I find it odd that the left it at all. By listing the author’s name, the name of the post and the year, they are essentially advertising for Lively. It invites you to google it as if it isn’t available due to a technical glitch.

So, I would disagree that this is an improvement at all over having an active link that worked. As far as I can see, it is the same.

Exodus is truely hopeless, and despite any attempts on outsiders to suggest improvements, they will never be able to redeem themselves. They have done too much harm to too many people and like a sociopath, they show no concern.

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